Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deposits, banks have been giving away everything from toasters and TV sets to European vacations. Now the tiny Desert Empire Bank (assets: $8.5 million) near wealthy and exclusive Palm Springs, Calif., has come up with the most alluring bait perhaps considered so far: a $55,000 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow limousine for any customer who will sink $1 million into 6.25% certificates of deposit for six years. The bank will also throw in the price of the sales tax and license plates...
...huge exhibition, which opened last month at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Age of Spirituality," assembled under the direction of Art Historian Kurt Weitzmann, is a magnificent compendium of some 450 works in every medium known to the ancient world?marble carvings, glass, gold, jewelry, silver, paint, cameos, cloth, mosaic, ivory, bronze...
...million. Dederich draws an annual salary of $100,000 and pays his top corporate officers from $30,000 to $50,000. "A lot of guys could do this thing from an old Ford roadster and sit on an orange crate," he says, while munching on powdered lettuce from a silver bowl. "They're holy men; I'm not. I need a $17,000 Cadillac. We are in the people business just exactly as if we were building Chevrolet axles...
...they both copy the star's own hysterical acting style, they fade quickly into the chaotic background. Wilder's performance is just a broader version of the routine he invented a decade ago in The Producers. His one big scene with Richard Pryor in the otherwise feckless Silver Streak is funnier than all 90 minutes of his mugging here...
They were talking about Hackett's record-shattering performance in his first race as a Harvard swimmer. Hackett, a silver-medalist in the 1500-meter freestyle at the Montreal Olympics, opened his Harvard career Saturday by gilding, apparently effortlessly, to victory in the 200-yd. freestyle with a time...